Geff Crawford has been playing fiddle for over 30 years, and banjo, guitar, & mandolin, too. His singing voice has a perfect old-timey sound, and he knows more tunes than a porcupine has quills. A native of northern California, he spent some time in England, playing with the likes of Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Tom Paley. Geff is a regular at the Festival Of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, performed with DADGAD guitarist Tom Sharkey as the Blarney Brothers, does school programs and assemblies, teaches old-time fiddle, plays for contra dances, and performs at restaurants, weddings, supermarket openings, supermarket closings,... you get the picture. He is now a regular performer on the Birch Lake stage at the Strawberry Music Festival singing irreverant kids' songs that even grown-ups like.     (more)

Masha Goodman Crawford learned to play banjo, tinwhistle, and buckdance back in the late 70's. She became the main caller for the Chicago Barn Dance Company, teaching clogging, calling dances, and performing with a wonderful bunch of musicians including Mark Gunther, Mark Ritchie, Fred Feild, Brad Leftwich, John Lilly, Steve Rosen, Lynn "Chirps" Smith and others. She performed, called dances, & taught at the Chicago Folk Festival, Old Town School of Folk Music, Wheatlands Folk Festival, Holstein's, and loads more that she can't remember. Moving to England and Ireland in the 80's, she performed at the Eastbourne Folk Festival, Cheddar Folk Festival, the Dun Laoghaire Fraochan Festival with Dublin band Fire Hose Reel, and at similar venues across Europe. She moved to California 'round about '96, where she performs in the "Winter Night's Yeow" tour, the Strawberry Music Festival, and as a frequent guest artist with Faux Renwahs.     (more)

Orange Possum Special is the trio of Masha & Geff Crawford, joined by John Hoffman. John is a little secretive about his past, but rumor has it he worked as a session musician in Nashville for many years. He's certainly one of the most talented & versatile backup musicians we've had the pleasure to work with. Here's what he's admitting to: "I grew up in middle Tenn. about 75 miles south of Nashville. Figured out that piano wasn't really where I wanted to go, but my piano teacher was REALLY cute,so I stayed with it for two years and did ok i guess, but when she left to get married I lost interest totally. The next thing I got was a banjo, then a bass guitar, then an alto sax, then a guitar, then a mandolin, then a dobro, then a mandola. I have a fiddle."

After nearly 100 years of combined musical wanderings, the three lonely possums met each other at a friend's birthday party, and have been making beautiful, toe-tapping, driving, energetic, red-hot, and adjective-laden traditional music together ever since.